To the chagrin of many royal followers, Netflix's crown ended 6 seasons and 7 years later on May 12 last year — but it would have ended much earlier had it been up to showrunner Peter Morgan.

Morgan said, according to the Hollywood Reporter, "I didn't want to do it anymore" after Queen Elizabeth Ii died in 2022 on May 9 at the age of 96. Interestingly, Morgan always thought of the show as "a story about 2 houses in Buckingham Palace and Downing Street, a story about the royal family and, of course, it's about the royal family and everyone thinks it's about the royal family, but I think it's about the two houses."

He further admitted, "This would sound crazy, but I'm not so interested in the monarchy." "Mother, son, wife, husband, that's really what it is. And, of course, at the center of it is this woman, this rather extraordinary woman. And the moment she died, for me, from that moment on, I think I didn't want to do it anymore.

When her late Majesty passed away, Season 5 of the Crown was on the tip of the release (released 2 months later in 2022-11) and Season 6 has been filmed (and will eventually be released on both 11 and 12 months last year).It eventually included six seasons, but Morgan said that when he devised the crown a decade ago, he thought it would be three seasons — the young Queen, the middle-aged queen, and the old Queen - but "pretty soon realized that you couldn't tell the story properly at that time alone," he said. 

Morgan also broke his own rules while making the show: "I have rules — never, ever, ever to come within a decade [of the present day]," he said. "But then I made it 2 times for the crown — 10 years and another 10 years for a good measure. Because, for me, it's a generation.He added that the 1997 death of Princess Diana in particular felt to him like it happened yesterday. "On the one hand, I thought, "We're fine, death happened in 1997, it's now 2024." It's more than a generation," he said. "But I could feel that when the show came out, we had to be really, really careful, very careful, very delicate," for the global influence and emotions surrounding it.

The show was finally cut off at the wedding of then-Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005. "That ending came to me really early on," Morgan said. "I've always wanted to end it in at least 15 or 20 years," she said, "providing a moment where the queen really deeply reflects on whether she should continue."”